EMC VNX Series Installation Guide

Introduction 5
Audience.........................................................................................................6
Shipping Methods...........................................................................................6
Overview of installing an EMC cabinet................................................ 6
Overview of installing in a customer cabinet.......................................6
Prepare your system 9
Before you begin........................................................................................... 10
Site requirements..........................................................................................11
Unpack your system 13
Unpacking the shipping boxes...................................................................... 14
Removing mini-rack components...................................................................15
Assemble components in your cabinet 21
Installing rails............................................................................................... 22
Installing the ganged rails................................................................ 22
Installing the blade enclosure 1 adjustable rails.............................. 23
Installing the Control Station 0 outer slide rails................................ 24
Installing the Control Station 1 outer slide rails................................ 28
Installing components...................................................................................28
Installation order of system components..........................................28
About the 3U Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE)...................................30
Installing the disk processor enclosure............................................ 31
Installing blade enclosure 0............................................................. 33
Installing blade enclosure 1............................................................. 34
Install Control Stations and the extension cables............................. 35
Cable your system 41
Cabling Control Station, modem, and public LAN...........................................42
Cabling CS0..................................................................................... 42
Cabling CS1 (optional)..................................................................... 43
Cabling storage processors to blades............................................................45
Cabling storage processors to blade 2..............................................45
Cabling storage processors to blade 3..............................................46
Cabling storage processors to blade 4..............................................47
Cabling storage processors to blade 5..............................................48
Cabling SPs to the blade management modules............................................49
Cabling for one blade enclosure....................................................... 49
Cabling for two blade enclosures..................................................... 50
Power up 53
Connecting or verifying power cables............................................................ 54
Connecting or verifying the gray power cables for PDU A................................54
Connecting or verifying the black power cables for PDU B..............................55
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Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
CONTENTS
EMC VNX Series VNX5600 Unified Installation Guide 3

EMC VNX Series Specifications

General

Management Interface	Unisphere
Drive Support	SAS, NL-SAS, Flash (SSD)
RAID Levels	RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6
Protocols Supported	Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS
Data Services	Deduplication, Compression, Snapshots, Replication
Processor	Intel Xeon
Operating System	VNX Operating Environment (block), VNX File Operating Environment (file)